• So the Czech Republic handed the U.S. team its ass on a platter, but watching the World Cup in New York is more about the eurotrash anyhow. This weekend, Swedes unfairly suffered as Good World failed to get their television properly working. [NYT-WC]
• Kevin Federline learns that he has an infant son; in the resulting wave of emotion, he removes his cornrows and allows himself to be photographed touching the child. [Us Weekly]
• What New York real estate lacks in affordability, it more than makes up for in glamorous exaggeration. [Copyranter]
• Matt Damon's anonywife gives birth to a baby girl; post-Shiloh, the couple is now trying to pay a celebrity weekly to run photos. [People]
• The Falls finally closes; murderous bouncers begin to look for work elsewhere. [NYDN]
• Crisis at the Gay Oscars Tonys — Alfre Woodard and Gayle King wear the same dress. Aren't stylists overpaid so as to avoid this sort of horror? [OAN]
• Is American Apparel less about the human rights thing as they would have you think? [Consumerist]
• Introducing V-Style, not to be confused with V or V Life. [Mediaweek]
• Media Guy Simon Dumenco asks if it would kill Conde Nast to cut the self-congratulatory circle-jerk regarding the still-unborn Portfolio. The answer: without its arrogance, there would be no Conde. So, yes, it would kill them. [AdAge]
• Related: the nicest cafeterias go to those who eat the least. [Memo Pad]